Whitman House Is an L.I. Park

Published: August 4, 1991

On June 16 you printed "State of the State Parks: Crippled and Decaying." You listed 19 parks as members of the Long Island Region of New York State Parks. You failed to include Walt Whitman House, the birthplace of America's greatest poet, the only state historic site on Long Island, as a proud member of the Long Island Region of New York State Parks.

The Walt Whitman Birthplace Association has undertaken the preservation and operation of Walt Whitman House in cooperation with the Long Island Region of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservations. BARBARA M. BART Executive Director Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Huntington Station